US6337885B1 - Radio receiver that digitizes a received signal at a plurality of digitization frequencies - Google Patents

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US6337885B1
US6337885B1 US09/023,873 US2387398A US6337885B1 US 6337885 B1 US6337885 B1 US 6337885B1 US 2387398 A US2387398 A US 2387398A US 6337885 B1 US6337885 B1 US 6337885B1
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  • This invention generally relates to the field of communications, more particularly, to radio receivers that digitally process a modulated received signal.
  • Analog-to-Digital (A/D) converters are used to digitize analog radio frequency (RF) signals, which are modulated by a modulating signal. Once digitized, the modulated received signal can be demodulated using well known digital signal processing techniques.
  • RF radio frequency
  • An ideal converter has an error transfer function with a generally sawtooth shape.
  • the error transfer function of such A/D converter has equal incremental steps that represent the differences between input signal levels and corresponding discrete quantized levels.
  • commercially available A/D converters exhibit inherent non-linearities, which are caused by their internal structure.
  • the error transfer function of the commercial A/D converters include unequal discrete steps.
  • the inherent non-linearities of a commercial A/D converter may superimpose a shape, for example, an S-shape, on the error transfer function of a commercial A/D converter.
  • interfering signals When exposed to inherent non-linearities of the A/D converter, interfering signals produce spurious harmonics, which should be removed to improve receiver performance. For example, if an interfering signal generates spurious harmonics that fall on one or more desired channels, weak received signals on such channels may be masked by stronger spurious harmonics, thus, degrading reception quality on the channels.
  • spurious harmonics generated due to non-linearities associated with the internal structure of the A/D converters can not be removed by filtering in the analog domain.
  • harmonic avoidance the harmonics of a large interfering signal are avoided by limiting the received signals to a small part of Nyquist band.
  • this method requires sharper (or more narrowband) anti-aliasing filters and severely reduces the usable bandwidth.
  • Dithering is the process of introducing an uncorrelated noise signal, known as dither signal, at the input of an A/D converter.
  • the dither signal smears spurious harmonics over a frequency band.
  • Two well known dithering methods include Subtractive Wideband Dithering and Out-of Band Dithering.
  • Subtractive Wideband Dithering is most effective for generating large dither signals.
  • it requires complicated subtracting circuitry for removing the generated dither signal.
  • Dither signals generated by out of band dithering are more easily removed than signals generated by Subtractive Wideband Dithering.
  • the advanced analog filter required for generating the dither signals cannot be easily integrated with the circuitry of the receiver.
  • Dithering effectively removes spurious harmonics, when the amplitude of dither signal is higher than the amplitude of spurious harmonics.
  • Lower order harmonics such as second and third order harmonics, are created by non-linearities that span a larger part of the A/D converter's input range than higher order harmonics, such as seventh and eight order harmonics. Therefore, higher order harmonics require lower dithering amplitudes, and are sometimes dithered “naturally” by present ambient noise.
  • larger dither amplitudes are required for removing low order harmonics. The larger dither amplitudes decrease the dynamic range of the receiver and complicate the design of bandlimiting filters that create and remove dither signals.
  • the present invention that addresses this need is exemplified in a radio receiver that avoids spurious harmonics of an interfering signal within the bandwidth of a desired channel using an A/D diversity arrangement.
  • the radio receiver converts an original frequency of a modulated received signal, for example, its second IF frequency, into a plurality of digitization frequencies at a pre-A/D conversion stage.
  • the radio receiver digitizes the modulated received signal at the plurality of digitization frequencies, which are preferably offset from each other, for example, arbitrarily or by a predefined frequency interval, in the order of a few channel spacings.
  • digitized modulated received signals at each one of the digitization frequencies are converted back to a single common frequency, preferably 0 Hz (baseband).
  • the radio receiver determines a plurality of reception quality values associated with the digitized modulated received signals, for example, corresponding bit error rates (BER) or carrier-to-interference—plus-noise ratios (c/(I+N)).
  • a digital signal processor demodulates the modulated received signal by selecting the digitized output of the modulated received signal that was digitized at a digitization frequency that provides a better reception quality than those digitized at another digitization frequency.
  • the A/D conversion stage digitizes the modulated received signal at the plurality of digitization frequencies substantially simultaneously.
  • the A/D conversion stage includes a plurality of A/D conversion branches.
  • the A/D conversion branches include a plurality of frequency converters that are coupled to a corresponding plurality of A/D converters.
  • the frequency converters convert the original frequency of the modulated received signal into the plurality of digitization frequencies during concurrent sampling intervals.
  • the plurality of A/D converters then simultaneously digitize the modulated received signal at the plurality of digitization frequencies during the concurrent sampling intervals.
  • the A/D conversion stage digitizes the modulated received signal at the plurality of digitization frequencies substantially non-simultaneously.
  • the A/D conversion stage includes a frequency converter, for example, a hopping synthesizer, that converts the original frequency of the modulated received signal into the plurality of digitization frequencies at a corresponding plurality of non-concurrent sampling intervals.
  • An A/D converter non-simultaneously digitizes the modulated received signal at the plurality of digitization frequencies during corresponding plurality of the non-concurrent sampling intervals.
  • a dithering circuit introduces a dithering signal at the A/D conversion stage.
  • the A/D diversity arrangement of the invention is used to avoid the lower order spurious harmonics, whereas, dithering is used to remove the higher order spurious harmonics.
  • the radio receiver determines a frequency location of an interfering signal and calculates the locations of spurious harmonics resulting from digitizing the interfering signal at the plurality of digitization frequencies.
  • the receiver digitizes the modulated received signal at a digitization frequency that resulting spurious harmonics at that frequency do not fall on a desired channel.
  • the radio receiver adaptively converts an original frequency of a modulated received signal to a digitization frequency.
  • An A/D converter digitizes the modulated received signal at the digitization frequency.
  • a frequency controller controls the digitization frequency such that spurious harmonics resulting from digitizing an interfering signal at the digitization frequency do not fall on a desired channel.
  • FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a radio receiver that advantageously incorporates an A/D converter according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a baseband processor section of FIG. 1 .
  • FIG. 3 is a diagram of resulting spurious harmonics at two digitization frequencies.
  • FIG. 4 is a block diagram of an A/D converter according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a baseband processor of FIG. 2 according to one aspect of the present invention.
  • FIG. 6 is a block diagram of a baseband processor of FIG. 2 according to another aspect of the present invention.
  • the radio receiver 10 includes one or more antennas 12 , a RF section 14 , a first IF section 16 , a second IF section 18 , and a baseband processor 20 .
  • the antennas 12 receive desired and interfering signals.
  • the desired received signal comprises a modulating signal that is carried over a carrier signal at a known carrier frequency.
  • the radio receiver 10 uses an antenna diversity arrangement for receiving the modulated received signal over a plurality of receiver branches.
  • the RF section 14 provides an initial selectivity to the modulated received signal within a relatively wide bandwidth.
  • the first IF section 16 down-converts the received signal with a first local oscillator signal to provide a first IF signal on line 22 , which has a pre-defined first IF frequency.
  • the first IF stage 16 provides more selectivity to the modulated received signal, filtering out some interfering signals and passing through the modulated received signal.
  • the first IF signal is applied to the second IF stage 18 , which further down-converts the first IF signal to provide a second IF signal on line 24 .
  • the second IF signal has an original second IF frequency f If , which is also wide bandwidth.
  • the second IF signal is applied to the baseband processor 20 , which digitizes the wide bandwidth second IF signal according to the present invention, to demodulate the modulated received signal.
  • a block diagram of the baseband processor 20 is shown to include a pre-A/D conversion stage 26 , an A/D conversion stage 28 , a post-A/D conversion stage 30 , and a digital signal processing stage 32 .
  • the present invention uses an A/D diversity arrangement to avoid spurious harmonics of an interfering signal that are generated after the A/D conversion stage 28 over one or more desired channels.
  • the baseband processor 20 converts the second IF frequency f IF of the second IF signal into a plurality of digitization frequencies that are offset from each other, for example, by a predefined number of channel spacings.
  • the received signal is digitized at each one of the digitization frequencies at a rate defined by a sampling frequency, f s .
  • the A/D conversion stage 28 digitizes the modulated received signal during sampling intervals that correspond to the sampling frequency f s .
  • FIG. 3 after the A/D conversion stage 28 , except for frequencies around 0 and f s /2, same spurious harmonics of an interfering signal digitized at two digitization frequencies f 1 and f 2 are spread over frequency spectrum with a constant offset.
  • the spurious harmonics of an interfering signal at two digitization frequencies f 1 and f 2 are shown by f 1harm and f 2harm , respectively.
  • the frequencies around 0 and f s /2 are not used as receiver channels due to aliasing.
  • the digitized outputs of the A/D conversion stage 28 at each digitization frequency are reconverted back to a single common frequency f 0 , preferably 0 Hz.
  • the digital signal processing stage 32 determines a corresponding reception quality measure. Based on corresponding reception quality measures at each one of the digitization frequencies, the base band processor 20 demodulates the modulated received signal at a digitization frequency that provides a better reception quality than at another digitization frequency.
  • the baseband processor 20 constitutes a demodulator that demodulates the modulated signal using a selected one of a plurality of digitization frequencies.
  • the modulated received signal may be demodulated by combining signals at different digitization frequencies, for example, using maximum likelihood combining, based on C/N or C/(N+I) values.
  • the pre-A/D conversion stage 26 converts the original frequency of the second IF signal to a first digitized frequency f 1 and a second digitization frequency f 2 .
  • the first digitization frequency f 1 and the second digitization frequency f 2 are offset from each other by an offset frequency f offset , which may have a predefined frequency interval, typically, in the order of a few channel spacings.
  • the A/D conversion stage 28 digitizes the modulated received signal at the first digitization frequency f 1 and at the second digitization frequency f 2 .
  • the post-A/D conversion stage 30 reconverts the output of the A/D conversion stage back to the common frequency f 0 . Then, the digital signal processing stage 32 determines reception quality measures associated with digitized outputs that correspond to the first and second digitization frequencies f 1 and f 2 and demodulates the received signal using the digitized outputs that correspond to a digitization frequency that provides a better reception quality than those corresponding to another digitization frequency.
  • the reception quality measure is determined based on one or a combination of received signal, noise, interference strength and/or bit error rate (BER) that is associated with each digitization frequency.
  • BER bit error rate
  • the modulated received signal is digitized at the plurality of digitization frequencies simultaneously using a plurality of A/D branches 21 .
  • the modulated signal is applied to a bandpass filter 23 that simultaneously couples the filtered modulated signal to mixers 25 .
  • Mixers 25 mix the filtered modulated signals with local oscillator signals that are generated by local oscillators 27 at frequencies f and f+f offset .
  • A/D converters 29 digitize the outputs of the mixers 25 and apply them to a digital signal processor (DSP) 31 .
  • DSP 31 processes the digitized outputs of the A/D converters 29 according to the present invention.
  • the modulated received signal is digitized at the plurality of digitization frequencies non-simultaneously using a single A/D converter.
  • the present invention locates the strongest interfering signal and computes the location of resulting spurious harmonics at a number of digitization frequencies. Then, the present invention digitizes the modulated received signal at a digitization frequency that avoids the spurious harmonics on a desired channel.
  • dithering may be used in connection with the A/D diversity arrangement of the present invention to dither away the higher order spurious harmonics of an interfering signal, for example, harmonics having larger order than the two lowest harmonics.
  • the number of receiver channels that can be interfered with by coinciding harmonics of an interfering signal are small compared to the high number of available channels, so it does not matter if dithering leaves a few harmonics intact.
  • dithering is used in combination with the A/D diversity of the present invention to remove higher order spurious harmonics. Under this arrangement, a dither signal is introduced at the input of the A/D conversion stage to dither away higher order spurious harmonics.
  • FIG. 5 a block diagram of an exemplary baseband processor 20 according to an embodiment that uses multiple A/D branches is shown.
  • the arrangement of FIG. 4 includes two A/D branches that during concurrent sampling intervals simultaneously digitize the received signal at the first digitization frequency f 1 and the second digitization frequency f 2 .
  • the baseband processor 20 applies the second IF signal to two separate A/D branches: a first A/D branch and a second A/D branch.
  • the first A/D branch includes a first mixer 34 , a first local oscillator 36 , and a first A/D converter 38
  • the second A/D branch includes a second mixer 40 , a second local oscillator 42 , and a second A/D converter 44
  • the first mixer 34 mixes the second IF signal with a signal having first local oscillator frequency provided by the first local oscillator 36
  • the second mixer 40 mixes the second IF signal with a signal having a second local oscillator frequency provided by the second local oscillator 42
  • the first and second local oscillators frequencies are selected such that the first and second digitization frequencies f 1 and f 2 have a frequency offset of f offset .
  • the first mixer 34 and first local oscillator 36 constitute a first frequency converter that converts the first IF frequency f If to a first digitization frequency f 1 .
  • the second mixer 40 and second local oscillator 42 constitute a second frequency converter that convert the second IF frequency f If to a second digitization frequency f 2 .
  • one or more frequency synthesizers may be used together with one or more mixers to simultaneously down convert the signals at the first and second local oscillator frequencies.
  • a wideband receiver may be used for receiving a wideband multichannel signal for one A/D branch.
  • a one-channel receiver may use a local oscillator signal with an alternative digitization frequency only for the receiver channels that are interfered with.
  • the one-channel local oscillator and its associated A/D branch are put in an stand-by mode for saving power during the times that the alternative A/D branch is not necessary.
  • the first A/D converter 38 digitizes the output of the first mixer 34
  • the second A/D converter 44 digitizes the output of the second mixer 40
  • the baseband processor 20 processes the outputs of the first and second A/D converters 38 and 44 in digital domain to demodulate the received RF signal.
  • the output of the first A/D converter 38 is applied to a first quadrature frequency converter, which includes a first quadrature local oscillator 46 and a first quadrature mixer 48 .
  • the first quadrature frequency converter converts the digitized modulated received signal at the output of the first A/D converter 38 to the common frequency f 0 .
  • the output of the second A/D converter 44 is applied to a second quadrature frequency converter, which includes a second quadrature local oscillator 50 and a second quadrature mixer 52 .
  • the second quadrature frequency converter converts the digitized modulated signal at the output of the second A/D converter 44 to the common frequency f 0 as well.
  • First and second low pass digital filters 54 and 56 remove spurious signals at outputs of the first and second quadrature frequency converters, respectively.
  • First and second error correcting and detecting blocks 58 and 60 process the digitized outputs of each A/D branch to determine an associated measure of reception quality, for example, BER or C/(I+N) associated with each A/D branch.
  • Digital signal processing block 62 processes the digitized outputs of the first and second A/D converter branches and selects the output of an A/D branch that provides a better reception quality than that of the other A/D branches f 0 . Both selection diversity and maximum likelihood combination can be used. Maximum likelihood combination uses a combination of branches, mainly the best branch, based on C/(I+N). Under this technique, the signal of a branch is added in phase with all other signals, multiplied by a weighing factor, usually the signal strength or C/(I+N).
  • interference rejection combining (IRC) technique which is an adaptive antenna technique, may also be used. Under the IRC technique, interference is nulled out by combining it in an “antiphase” manner.
  • the first and second local oscillators and mixers constitute the pre-A/D conversion stage 26
  • the first and second A/D converters constitute the A/D conversion stage 28
  • the first and second quadrature local oscillators and mixers constitute the post-A/D conversion stage 30
  • the digital signal processing block 62 constitutes the digital processing stage 32 .
  • FIG. 6 a block diagram of the baseband processor 20 according to another aspect of the invention that uses a single A/D conversion branch is shown.
  • the pre-A/D conversion stage mixes the second IF frequency of second IF signal f If through a mixer 64 with signals having first and second local oscillator frequencies.
  • a local oscillator for example, a hopping synthesizer, is controlled to generate the first and second local oscillator frequencies non-simultaneously.
  • the hopping synthesizer 66 provides the first local oscillator frequency during a first sampling interval and then provides the second local oscillatory frequency during a second sampling interval, which occurs non-concurrent to the first sampling interval.
  • the mixer 64 produces the first digitization frequency f 1 and the second digitization frequency f 2 at separate sampling intervals.
  • the A/D conversion stage includes a single A/D converter 68 that non-concurrently digitizes the received signal at the first and second digitization frequencies during the first and second sampling intervals.
  • the post-A/D conversion stage includes a quadrature frequency converter, which has a quadrature local oscillator 70 and a quadrature mixer 72 , that converts the digitized output of the A/D converter at the first digitization frequency f 1 and second digitization frequency f 2 to the common frequency f 0 .
  • the hopping synthesizer 66 and the quadrature local oscillator 70 are controlled to synchronously perform their respective frequency conversion and reconversion functions.
  • a digital filter block 74 digitally removes undesired outputs of the quadrature mixer block 72 .
  • a digital signal processing block 76 determines the reception quality measures at the first and second digitization frequencies f 1 and f 2 . Once determined, the digital signal processing block 76 demodulates the received signal using a digitization frequency that provides a better reception quality.
  • the synthesizer 66 controls the frequency of the local oscillator signal to move the spurious harmonics away from a desired channel.
  • the synthesis 66 acts as a frequency controller that moves the spurious harmonics away from a desired channel.
  • the synthesizer 66 preferably comprises a direct digital synthesizer (DDS).
  • the present invention can be used in a radio receiver that uses an antenna diversity arrangement, where a plurality of receiver branches provide the modulated received signal from multiple propagation paths. Under this arrangement, each receiver branch may have dedicated or shared A/D branches.
  • Table 1 below shows a comparison of usable channel bandwidth, as a percentage of Nyquist band, between the present invention and the conventional “harmonic avoidance” method.
  • Table 1 shows usable bandwidth depending gon the order of the spurious harmonics of the first column.
  • ‘Hits’ denotes the number of possible interferer frequencies for which two different harmonics can coincide inside complete bandwidth.
  • the present invention effectively avoids spurious harmonics of interfering signals over receiver channels.
  • the present invention is effective in avoiding low order harmonics, which are created by non-linearities that span a substantial part of the A/D converter's input range and thus, cannot be removed easily by dithering.
  • the present invention may be combined with dithering, to remove as many harmonics as possible.
  • the combination of dithering with diversity arrangement of invention significantly reduces the undesired effects of non-linearities in A/D converters.
  • the present invention avoids large scale dithering resulting in lower cost dithering circuitry. With multiple A/D conversion branches, multiple less expensive A/D converters may be used instead of a single expensive A/D converter.

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